Breed Choices For Nano Technicicans
I have noticed recently that there have been questions about breed so I decided to make a little thread that details the different aspects of them.
Summary
At this point it seems to be pretty standard that most NT’s agree that Solitus is the best choice for an nt due to their overall balance of factors. The additional health afforded by an Atrox isn’t of much benefit to us as we don’t have defenses that allow for a maximum HP setup to be useful for an nt endgame. Nanomages are also not a great choice due to the fact that endgame nano pool is of very little use as we rarely if ever see our pools in trouble. Opifex has some promise as a breed as well, their HP is on par with a solitus and their bonuses to evades make them a possibility as well due to most endgame NT setups being evade based.
Overall Differences Statwise
Body Dev
This stat is based on your breed choice so this will effect the amount of HP your toon ends up with
Atrox – 4 points of HP per point in Body Dev
Solitus – 3 points of HP per Point in Body Dev
Opifex – 3 points of HP per Point in Body Dev
Nanomage – 2 points of HP per point in Body Dev
Nano Pool
Nanomage – 4 point of Nano per point in Nano Pool
Solitus – 3 point of Nano per point in Nano Pool
Opifex – 3 points of Nano per point in Nano Pool
Atrox – 2 points of Nano per point in Nano Pool
The end result of this is that if we use a Nanomage as the base, Solitus and Opifex’s will end up with about 1k more HP endgame and 1k less Nano. Atroxs will end up with about 2k more health and 2k less nano with all setups being equal.
Breed Ability Caps
The different breeds will cap their abilities at different levels. You can find the endgame stats here.
The main difference here is that Nanomages will end up with slightly higher nano skills by about 30 points, Opifexs will end up with slightly higher evades and Troxes will end up with slightly more health. The specifics of all this can be shown by shift right clicking any skill and seeing what base stats feed into it on your skill window by pressing U ingame.
Shadowlands
Shadowbreeds will be different depending on which breed you choose. Shadowbreeds, while not a major issue in breed selection are good pieces of information for you to have to complete the picture of the what they are and do, there are several and they are based on how many you have uploaded and what breed and faction you are. You can find more info here.
Alien Invasion
Alien invasion allowed for some specific benefits to breed based on perk selection. The Genome Perks can be found and studied on Auno.org under the perk selection menu. Couple of things to keep in mind here.
Solitus get a nice heal and root resist special.
Nanomages get a “mana shield” type special however it is currently not very useful because of its interaction with other shields in the game that are more useful, its duration of effect and possibly being bugged.
Atroxes have a special called Mongo Rage that increases your attack skill temporarily. This has no effect for NT’s as our attack rating is always zero due to the cyberdeck that we use having a zero attack rating. If you are considering using a weapon, this may be something to consider.
Please feel free to add to this and I will edit the main part, you can send me a message or just post here. Any info from a pvp perspective would be great to have. Dunno if a level based section would be interesting too or not.